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Thursday, February 13,2003
Since 1900
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 104, Issue 98
OSPIRG
appeal
results in
increase
An Executive recommendation
prompted a PFC vote to increase
QSPIRGIs original 2003-04 budget
Ali Shaughnessy
Freelance Reporter
Accusations and controversy filled
the EMU Rogue Room Tuesday night at
the ASUO Programs Finance Commit
tee meeting.
Standing in the center of it all was OSPIRG.
The Oregon Student Public Interest Re
search Group went before PFC to appeal its
original budget allocation of 882,320.
ASUO Executive recommended PFC al
locate more money than originally given to
OSPIRG, which would have changed its
budget decrease from 31.87 percent to only
18.7 percent.
PFC programs appointee Joy Nair dis
agreed with the ASUO Executive recom
mendation to raise OSPIRG’s funding to
898,223.
“It’s sad to see the committee really de
bate with 820, but you’re just letting
817,000go rightnow,” she said.
PFC senator Mike Sherman, seat No. 3,
responded to Nair, saying she needed to jus
tify the use of Oregon State University num
bers in the University of Oregon’s OSPIRG
budget. Sherman pointed out that Nair had
not addressed that issue at the hearing.
PFC at-large member James Tilford
agreed with Nair, and made a motion to
keep OSPIRG funding as it was. The mo
tion died for lack of a second.
After Tilford’s failed motion, PFC called
to question and voted on the Executive rec
ommendation. It passed 4-2-1, allocating
OSPIRG 898,223 — an 18.7 percent de
crease from last year.
Concerned students and community
members attended the appeal hearing to
lend their approval or disapproval. Bret Ja
cobson, publisher for the Oregon Com
mentator, said that his main concern was
OSPIRG’s fiscal unaccountability to the
student body.
“I think the board is being responsible in
looking at the principle of not wanting to fund
activity at another campus,” he said in sup
port ofPFCs original decision to cut OSPIRG’s
budget to $82,320for the2003-04year.
ASUO President Rachel Pilliod made
a brief appearance to give support for
OSPIRG.
Turn to PFC, page 3
House passes service relief bill
The Oregon House of
Representatives passed a bill that
will relieve some budgets strained
in the wake of Measure 28^ failure
Jan Montry
City/State Politics Reporter
The Oregon House of Representa
tives voted 51-8 on Monday to approve
a bill that would restore #15.5 million
in human service programs and state
police during the next five months. The
bill will now go to the Oregon Senate for
consideration.
The bill, which would be implemented
using mosdy one-time reserve funds, was
developed after public outcry on the fail
ure of Measure 28. Since then, legislators
have been tom about whether to re-open
the current budget or to focus on the
next biennium’s impending shortfall.
If the Senate approves the legislation,
House Bill 5075 would restore some
funding for programs and staff in police
and health services, including the Med
ically Needy program, state police foren
sics services and long-term care for eld
erly and disabled people.
But the bill faces scrutiny and the pos
sible veto of Gov. Ted Kulongoski be
cause it could put Oregon deeper into
debt for this budget and the next.
Kulongoski spokesman Scott Ballo
said the governor wants to see programs
and services restored, but is worried
that a short-term fix would mislead
Turn to State, page 4
House Bill 5075
Plan to restore some Measure 28 cuts
$6.25 million
senior in-home/
community-based
long-term care
$7.58 million
Medicaily Needy program
$1.2 million
forensic services
and state troopers
$600,000
mental health
services
Off the
court,
freshman
guard
Brandon
Lincoln
enjoys
pastimes
popular
with many
college
students:
relaxing to
music and
hanging
out with
friends.
Mark
McCambridge
Emerald
A lime of transition
hresnman Brandon Lincoln
attributes his success in school
and basketball to his family,
friends and teammates
Brad Schmidt
News Editor
To the untrained eye, freshman Brandon Lin
coln’s transition from high school basketball to
college ball may look effortless.
Well?
“It wasn’t that easy,” Lincoln stressed.
Things are getting better.
The Portland native has seen an ample amount
of playing time this season as a first-year player.
Looks can be deceiving, however. Lincoln is get
ting accustomed to a faster, harder level of play,
and that’s proven most difficult for the versatile
guard. More demanding, even, than adjusting to a
new city, new friends and new classes.
“My focus (in high school) was hoops,” Lincoln
said. “My parents made me keep my focus on
school and I think that helped me to come in here.”
All of Lincoln’s immediate family — his two
Turn to Lincoln, page 8
Assembly members
petition for official
response to Iraq war
Members of the University Assembly an
nounced Wednesday that they have suc
cessfully collected enough signatures to call
a special legislative session of the University
Assembly to discuss the University’s official
response to a possible war in Iraq.
Concerned Faculty for Peace and Jus
tice, the group that circulated petitions,
has finally collected more than 508 fac
ulty signatures, which represents one
third of faculty who are eligible to vote
for faculty senators.
Senate President Greg McLauchlan
said once Senate Secretary Gwen Steigel
man verifies each signature, University
President Dave Frohnmayer will set the
time and date of the assembly session.
The University’s response to such a war
has been an ongoing debate since Profes
sor Emeritus Frank Stahl proposed that
the Faculty Senate take a stance on the
issue at their regular December meeting.
Senators decided that the issue was not
something the group had the authority to
vote on, and at a January meeting the sen
ate voted to ponvene a non-binding ses
sion of the more than 2,000-member as
sembly solely for discussion purposes.
However, only about 200 people at
tended the Jan. 31 assembly meeting,
prompting Stahl and others to suggest
that most assembly members were done
with discussion and were waiting for an
assembly session where they could actu
ally vote on something.
Resolutions against a war in Iraq have
already been approved by other state uni
versities, including Oregon State Univer
sity, the University of Montana at Mis
soula and the University of Wisconsin.
— Brook Reinhard
MFT interns offer relationship check-ups
The Marriage and Family Therapy
Program is offering free Relationship
Check-Up consultations this week
Kira Park
Freelance Reporter
The December 1999 Surgeon General’s report
on mental health found that half of the people who
would benefit from therapy were not receiving it.
Now, with budget cuts resulting from Measure
28’s failure, the mental health community in the
Eugene area fell into a “tailspin,” according to
John Miller, clinical director for the Marriage and
Family Therapy Program in the University’s Col
lege of Education.
To provide services for hard-to-reach popula
tions that need mental health treatment the most,
the Center for Family Therapy, located at 720 E.
13th Ave., Suite 304, is offering a free Relationship
Check-Up from noon to 8 p.m. today through Sat
urday. The event includes a free one-hour private
therapy consultation for couples, families and indi
viduals. The center will also serve refreshments.
Oiganizers said clients can expect therapists to
help identify both strengths and areas to improve in
the relationship. The consultation “is not designed
only for people who have problems, but also for
those who seek to enrich their relationships,”
Miller said.
“We want this event to be an opportunity to cele
brate relationships,” event supervisor and Assis
tant Professor Jason Platt said. He added that posi
tive, practical changes are always possible and can
improve even the healthiest relationships.
Appointments are available but walk-ins will also
be accepted, as the event seeks to reduce the stig
ma of therapy and to cultivate a positive percep
tion of the experience, pre-doctoral intern and
event supervisor Rohini Vira and Platt said.
Jessica Champion, an MFT student and graduate
intern at the center, said she wants people to feel
good about the session and gain improved perspec
tives on therapy. However, she cautioned that par
ticipants should not expect major changes from a
single one-hour session.
The Center for Family Therapy allows graduate
interns in the MFT program to gain “direct expo
sure to clinical work,” according to the MFT Grad
uate Specialization brochure. Champion said the
result is an effective exchange between therapy in
terns and the community as the students get valu
able experience and clients have access to an im
portant, low-cost service.
Platt acknowledged possible concerns about the
gap in training levels between graduate interns and
Turn to Check-up, page 3
Weather
Today: High 50, Low 38,
morning fog, chance of rain
Friday: High 52, Low 35,
mostly cloudy, rain possible
Looking ahead
Friday
The Compassion Center helps
marijuana patients grow their own
Monday
The Asian Celebration returns to
Eugene for 'The Legends of Asia"